Unit I Energy Flow Quiz

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms.

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Detriov

Why is a shark a carnivore.

• because it eats seaweed
• because it eats dead animals
• because it eats sand 
• because it eats other animals

The efficiency of energy transfer from a lower trophic level to the next highest level is roughly

• 1%
• 10%
• 100%
• 1000%

How do consumers get their energy? 

• laying in the sun
• eating other organisms 
• providing food for other organisms
• surviving in an ecosystem 

Organisms that makes its own food using sunlight or chemicals; producer

• decomposer
• autotroph
• heterotroph
• herbivore

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

In the energy pyramid here, which organisms have the most energy available?

• Producers
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Top Predator